Possible Clues:

• This hen is no fowl
• Small beetle, red with black spots
• Female collector ultimately put in offer for beetle
• The sort of hen that doesn't have feathers - just spots
• Robin beside Windermere, say, in old children's book
• Black-spotted red beetle
• Small flying beetle, red with black spots
• A little red hen with spots?
• Peeress given prison term got a bug
• Lawrence's beetle